Posted by dorayme on 03/07/07 19:50

In article <ZWBHh.10879$862.4911@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> > Before trying to accommodate a really long address in this
> > fashion, think of not putting in the address at all, just the
> > mailto: code with a descriptive short text to appear, like "Tex
> > Ritter's email" (which by the way will wrap fine naturally).
>
> Bad idea. You would make it more difficult to people write down the address,
> for example.

If it was a bad idea to think about this alternative and
implement it in various contexts, then presumably one should
never so do. Since this is appropriate in some contexts, it
cannot be such a bad idea to think about it.

It does not preclude having the full address elsewhere on the
page (outside an overcrowded table) or in a print out. All
depends on the design.

Perhaps you are privy to information about the OP that I am not
privy to? I know he said: "I've tried setting a fixed
width for the entire table but the word (which is really a long
email address) is still breaking the table."

One technique I used once to limit the width of a column of web
addresses in a multi col spreadsheet was to head the col with
"http://www" or just "http://" to offload the text that was to be
common to all the addresses. More difficult to adapt for email
addresses for obvious reasons.

I agree with every one of your other suggestions.

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dorayme

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